The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1887-06-04
DRESS AND COLOR.
Why Every Woman Should Strive to Lesk
Lovely, Sweet and Pure.

DRESS AND COlOns
WV Every Woman Should strive to Loek
Lovely, Sweet ana Pure.
The world teaches us in silent, every
day lessons, to love beauty in every
form-until beautiful face, a beauti-
full dress, beautiful form or beauti-
full room becomes as pleasing to our
sight as sweet flower, or any other
lovely object in nature; and, if we love
personal beauty, if it pleases our eye.
and rests and satisfies our heart, is it
not worth cultivating just as our flower
gardens are worth cultivating for their
bright beauty, and for the fragrance
they shed about us?-or our strawber-
ries for their luscious taste so satisfying
to the palate?
Beauty is one of the great needs of
human nature. and most people are
unconsciously grateful for it. To give
pleasure to others is certainly in itself
high aim, and the woman who makes
herself and her surroundings as grace
full and lovely as may be, is something
like unto a 10y forever" Now, no
woman, whether she be comparatively
pretty or superlative homely, can look
rs we'll as nature intended her to-, un-
less she is careful and painstaking
about her dress, careful as to its fitness
in texture and make, and as to its
suitableness of color. 1t isve ~ difficult
to know what color will be the most
becoming, and still this is considered .
matter of the most vital Importance.
We can all understand that there may
be very plain garments as well as very
plain faces and natures, that yet have
nothing repulsive about them, that do
not stop with sudden shock ones
pleasure in being, that do not dissat-
isfy, perplex or annoy one; all dresses
might have their beauty, for it consists
solely in garment being becoming
and sensible, and all faces might have
it, because it is the reflection from an
intelligent mind and a kindly heart.
We have heard women say that they
did not care whether they were pretty
and attractive or not, but we never
have believed it, because we can not
believe it. Certainly, no woman who
is loving and beloved, but must wish
to look pure and sweet and lovely, at
least in the eyes of one; and no mother
but desires that her face may seem to
her little ones the fairest and dearest
of all on the earth. Then, although all
women can not be beautiful, let those
who are plain do the best they can to
make those they love, and who love
them, forget that they are ugly, and
remember that it is not a sin, or a
folly, to try to be lovely.
There is general rule that all coll
ors in dress to be becoming must be
subservient to the complexion, but as
compilations are as various as the blades
of the wonderful striped grass, no two
exactly alike, it is dificultto know how
to decide as to what is subservient. We
are told that if one has blue eyes she
should never wear blue of brighter
hue, because it will make the eyes APP
pear light and faded; again it has been
generally supposed that brunettes
should not wear blue. Yet we all have
occasionally seen some bright, black
eyed, dark-haired maiden robed in a
heecy cloud of blue, and yet seeming
the very rosebud of some lovely ''blos-
soming garden of girls, - when by all
known rules, she should have looked
like a perfect fright in the garments
she wore. One writer on colors in
dress says: eve see contrasts in nat
ure, but they are always softencd, one
color shading into the other at the
edges; from this we take the hint. and
when wearing 3; black dress, either use
some thin white material about the
! neck, to soften down the contrast, or
else thin black to shade the whiteness
of the skin into tn. black color Of the
garment. Only under these conditions
| can the sudden contrast enhance the
fairness of the complexion"
Transparent white, as we have said,
has much the effect of gray, and the
brilliant effect and exquisite charm Of
light colors for summer wear is be-
coming more fully understood and
acknowledged Their delicious cool
| ness and daintiness of appearance, as
we'll as their durability, and the ease
with which when soiled they can he
| made to look as we'll as new, renders
white suits very becoming and desira-
BILE for summer wear.-St Louis Maga-
cine.
He Knew Him Well.
81 tell you these are the most won.
derful bargains ever offered" said